Method of securing facings and the like to walis and the like



R. A. MEGENITY.

METHOD OF SECURING FACINGS AND THE LIKE T0 WALLS AND THE LIKE. APPLICATION FILED IAN-'16. 1920.

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Application filed. January 15,1920. Serial No. a ea;

T 0 all whom it may concern: h I

Be it known that LRALPH A. MEGENITY, a citizen of the United States, residing in Kansas ity. in the county of Jackson, in the State of Missouri, have invented an Improvement in Methods of Securing Facings and the like to lValls and the like, of which the following is a specification.

The method which constitutes the present invention is disclosed but not claimed in my two Letters Patent No. 1,280,516, dated Gotober 1, 1918, and No. 1,285,768, dated Nd vember 26, 1918, respectively; and in illustrating the invention of the present case, I have selected Figures 2 and 3 of the drawings of each of those Letters Patent and reproduce the same here.

Figure 1 of the present drawing is a perspective view of a portion ofan ordinary wooden wall form to which wall studs have been attached prior to the pouring of the cement; Figure 2 is a horizontal section of the finished wall'with a facing attached; Figure 3 is a perspective view similar to Figure 1 with a slightly different wall stud attached to the wooden form; and Figure 4t is a vertical section of the finished wall with a facing attached, showing how the face of the wall stud in one application of the invention may be drawn out in applying the attaching tie-pieces,

In carrying out the invention, a metal stud is used which has suitable means to anchor it in the cement after the latter has been poured and hardened, and a face which 'lies exposed upon the surface of the bardened body of cement after the wooden forms have been removed. Such a stud is illustrated in the drawings in which the face is denoted by the numeral 4 and the anchoring means by the numeral 6. Before the cement is poured, one or more of these studs, as may be desired, are secured to the wooden forms as illustrated in Figures 1 and 3 of the drawings and, as will be obvious, become embedded in the body of cement with their faces exposed along the surface of said body when the forms are removed.

According to the illustration of Figure 2, when it is proposed to attach a facing or other member to a wall or other cementitious body containing the embedded studs, a gouging tool is employed to remove a small amount of the hardened cement behind or underneath the face of the stud at any point where'it is desired to insert a tie-piece.

In Figure 2, for instance, two such tiepieces 11 are shown booked at each end; and when a very slight amount of the cement has been removed by the gouging tool, one of these hooks can readily be inserted through the opening thus formed behind the stud. In this way each tie-piece can readily be secured to the stud by being hooked around the same as illustrated in Figure 2. This is a very simple operation requiring little time or trouble on the part of a workman.

Referring again to Figure 2. the numeral 1 denotes the body of cement in which the studs have been embedded. as previously described, and the numeral 3 denotes mortar which may be used in laying a veneer facing consisting of facing blocks 2 which are indicated in dotted lines. The facing blocks and mortar are applied after the tie-pieces 11 have been hooked into the studs, it being understood, of course, that the mortar and blocks are merely illustrative of one kind of facing which may be employed. Indeed, the studs themselves and the tie-pieces are illustrative of suitable forms but are not the only forms of these elements which may be employed in carrying out the invention.

In Figure 4., a portion of the length of the stud, that is to say, the complete body or longitudinally extending member of the stud has been drawn out from the wall bv the tool instead of gouging out a hole in the cement, the tie-pieces in such case being inserted between the surface of the wall and the face of the stud after it has been drawn out. This, indeed, is a prefcrable manner of putting the invention into practice, as I now conceive it; for it is simpler to draw the stud out than to gouge out holes in the cement. The stud, as illustrated in Figures 3 and 4. is particularly adapted to be drawn out in that its construction provides for yielding to the outward pressure of the tool, without breaking. All this is accomplished as more particularly described in my Letters Patent No. 1,285,768 referred to above and need not be particularly explained here inasmuch as the precise form of stud has no particular bearing on the present invention. It is of course evident that by using sufficiently yielding material for the stud, the same purpose oan be accomplished as by making the stud in the particular manner described in my Letters Patent No. 1,285,768, The invention may be applied to any cementitious body, including ceilings and 5 floors as well as Walls and other concrete constructions i I I claim as my invention I y The method of attaching a facing or other member to a cementitio'us body which com- 10 prises embedding a stud, insaid body so that its face lies exposed along the surface thereof, bending a portion of the length of the stud outwardly from the surface of the body to a sufficient extent to permit the in-,

sertion of a tie piece-between said stud and body, introducing the tie-piece, and securing the facing to the tie-piece.

Ln testimony whereof, I have signed my name to thissp'ecification this 3rd day of J anuary,,l920. 1 v

RALPH A. MEGENITY. 

